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Emergence and potential for spread of Chikungunya virus in Brazil

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2015

Year

Márcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes, Nuno R. Faria, Janaína Mota de Vasconcelos, Nick Golding, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Layanna Freitas de Oliveira, Raimunda do Socorro da Silva Azevedo, Daisy Elaine Andrade da Silva, Eliana Vieira Pinto da Silva, Sandro Patroca da Silva,
BMC Medicine

Abstract

The etiological strains associated with the early-phase CHIKV outbreaks in Brazil belong to the Asian and ECSA genotypes. Continued surveillance and vector mitigation strategies are needed to reduce the future public health impact of CHIKV in the Americas.

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